A Marijuana Revolution in the Making on Election Day

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http://www.alternet.org/marijuana-revolution-making-election-day

As we approach November, the leading Democrat and Republican presidential candidates remain conspicuously, though predictably, silent regarding the question of marijuana law reform. By contrast, much of the public and the mainstream media can’t stop talking about pot politics. That’s because voters in six states this November 6 will have their say on the subject. If present polls hold, federal officials on November 7 will have little choice but to acknowledge that they have a full fledged reefer rebellion on their hands.

Voters’ impending rejection of the drug war status quo shouldn’t come as a surprise, at least not to anyone who has been paying attention. Opinion polls over the past 12 months indicate record levels of public support for ending America’s multi-decade failed experiment with cannabis criminalization. Are a majority of Americans finally ready to voice their drug war dissent at the ballot box? In mere weeks, voters in six states will have the opportunity.

[normiss 801]

Romney has clearly stated he doesn't support it and it is a gateway drug.
Obama is (almost) silently shutting down all medicinal clinics.

The war is still on.

[RonD1120 62]

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http://www.alternet.org/marijuana-revolution-making-election-day

As we approach November, the leading Democrat and Republican presidential candidates remain conspicuously, though predictably, silent regarding the question of marijuana law reform. By contrast, much of the public and the mainstream media can’t stop talking about pot politics. That’s because voters in six states this November 6 will have their say on the subject. If present polls hold, federal officials on November 7 will have little choice but to acknowledge that they have a full fledged reefer rebellion on their hands.

Voters’ impending rejection of the drug war status quo shouldn’t come as a surprise, at least not to anyone who has been paying attention. Opinion polls over the past 12 months indicate record levels of public support for ending America’s multi-decade failed experiment with cannabis criminalization. Are a majority of Americans finally ready to voice their drug war dissent at the ballot box? In mere weeks, voters in six states will have the opportunity.

I listened to former Congressman Tom Tancredo make a favorable argument for legalization in Colorado the end of last week.

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[kallend 2,027]

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Romney has clearly stated he doesn't support it and it is a gateway drug.
Obama is (almost) silently shutting down all medicinal clinics.

The war is still on.

Prohibition was the catalyst for the rise of organized crime in the USA. The "war on drugs" is the fuel that keeps organized crime in business.

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[normiss 801]

the current administration is rapidly shutting down the medical use dispensaries....
Talking out both sides of their mouths on this issue.
Not surprised.

[rehmwa 2]

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the current administration is rapidly shutting down the medical use dispensaries....
Talking out both sides of their mouths on this issue.
Not surprised.

also not surprised that this is getting zero press
and that the usual pro-pot crowd in here is not complaining about it

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[billvon 2,995]

>also not surprised that this is getting zero press

I think one reason is that Pelosi is very strongly against it. The press, conditioned to see everything as democratic vs republican, doesn't know what to make of it.

[kelpdiver 2]

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the current administration is rapidly shutting down the medical use dispensaries....
Talking out both sides of their mouths on this issue.
Not surprised.

also not surprised that this is getting zero press
and that the usual pro-pot crowd in here is not complaining about it

gets plenty of press here.

BTW, DD's shift to pot politics is mirrored by the Occupiers who started promoting a rainbow of unrelated issues, with pot perhaps the most prominent.

[JerryBaumchen 1,364]

Hi rehmwa,

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the current administration is rapidly shutting down the medical use dispensaries....
Talking out both sides of their mouths on this issue.
Not surprised.

also not surprised that this is getting zero press

It is getting lots of press here in Oregon. Primarily because the dispensaries are growing & selling way more than allowed, and not to folks with medical cards. It is the huge illegal sales that are getting them raided.

JerryBaumchen

PS) Current polls show the initiative here in Oregon is failing.

[lawrocket 3]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15647611274064109718

Check out the dissent by fascist right-winger Clarence Thomas, which was joined by Rehnquist and O'Connor.

Why do I put this? Because you wrote "voters in six states this November 6 will have their say on the subject." The lefties on the SCOTUS have made it known that, well, this isn't a state police power issue but rather one of interstate commerce.

Good luck to those states. I've seen what the US Attorneys General think of medical marijuana in California.

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[DiverMike 5]

I liked that the dissenting opinion included the Madison Federalist papers quote:

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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

I guess you have to either be a minority on the supreme court to believe that or dead two hundred years.

For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.

[lawrocket 3]

Well, we can't be having states doing things differently. They might get it wrong.

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[winsor 236]

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I liked that the dissenting opinion included the Madison Federalist papers quote:

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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

I guess you have to either be a minority on the supreme court to believe that or dead two hundred years.

More like 147.

[DiverMike 5]

To whom are you referring? Madison died 176 years, 3 months, 4 days ago (which I will admit is less than 200 years).

For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.

[lawrocket 3]

Naw. It realy only has to go to 1942 in Wickard v. Fillburn. Sure, you can look to 1937 in West Coast Hotel for the first indication of the Supreme Court granting big authority to the federal government.

But it was Wickard that first found that this had to be done. We don't need to go too far to see where the idea of what "interstate commerce" meant was reinterpreted.

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